Wings (Chinese constellation)

Yì Xiù map

The Wings mansion (翼宿, pinyin: Yì Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the southern mansions of the Vermilion Bird.

Asterisms

English name Chinese name Modern constellation Number of stars
Wings Crater/Hydra 22
Dongou[1] 東甌 Antlia/Vela 5

References

  1. Dongou is the name of a place in Wenzhou, in southern Zhejiang.
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